Spectacular views of cascading waterfalls reward the weekend wanderer in the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges. Lace up your shoes and stretch your legs. Watch waterfalls from high lookouts, wander fern fringed paths, and follow boardwalks through rainforest, to watch from below.
Take your pick from our top waterfall wanders in the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges.
Update: Please note that parts of Yarra Ranges National Park closed due to significant storm damage (June 2021). Please check the Parks Victoria website for the latest updates.
1. Steavenson Falls Trail
An easy 700-metre (return) stroll to Steavenson Falls, one of Victoria's highest waterfalls, that can be made day or night – the path and falls are floodlit between dusk and midnight.
2. Tree Fern Gully Trail
A gentle 3.4-kilometre, one-and-half-hour (one way) walk among manna gum, mountain ash and shady fern trees from Marysville to Steavenson Falls.
3. Keppel Lookout Trail
A steep 15.5-kilometre, five hour looped hike with spectacular rewards: views across Marysville, the Cathedral Range State Park and Steavenson Falls from Keppel Lookout, plus views from the top and base of Steavenson Falls.
4. Sherbrooke Falls Trail
An easy, flat 1.2-kilometre, 30-minute (return) meander through ferns, sassafras and mountain ash to Sherbrooke Falls in the Dandenong Ranges.
5. Cumberland Walk
A breathtaking four-kilometre, two-hour walk with short, steep hills, leading to two waterfalls in the Yarra Ranges National Park: Cora Lynn Falls and Cumberland Falls.
6. Keppel Falls Walk
A two-kilometre, 45-minute (return) wander with an upstream climb to the cascading, tiered Keppel Falls in the Yarra Ranges National Park.
